“Sitting in silence, she stared out the window. Searching for words, her gaze fell upon the shadow of a man she once knew. Her eyes met his and a shiver ran down her spine, straightening her in her seat. She quickly looked away and turned to her screen. She hoped he wouldn’t come in, but a part of her wished he would. She tried to preoccupy herself in the task at hand and began to write feverishly. Nonsensical statements and sentences she overheard from strangers from an adjacent table. She had successfully distracted herself when she felt a warm hand on her shoulder. His hand. She closed her eyes and was flooded with a rush of memories. She looked up from her screen and turned to him. That Duchenne smile.”

This year, I read this blog (warning: she drops the F-bomb, a few times). But here’s the part that I found especially interesting:

“We can no longer turn our backs on the changes that have been beckoning to be made. The more we push them down, the harder they’ll push back. They’re ready to emerge, and they’re rocketing upwards with a beautiful, powerful, energizing vengeance.

We can decide whether that vengeance will come calling with new light, new love, new breath and the new way of life we’ve desperately been seeking (which has been here all along, just waiting for us create the necessary space for it by releasing our old, outmoded patterns and blockages), or we can feed into the negative aspects of this Scorpio-fueled metamorphosis and create a raging, harrowing, bang-your-head-against-the-wall vengeance with the help of our old friend we hate to love…Resistance. The most important thing we need to remember is to be in this process. Be here, now. Pay attention. Give it the focus and energy it deserves.”